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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

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Number of Chapters: 16

Length: 10 hours and 06 minutes

Language: English

Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King’s College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions.

“Ghost Stories of an Antiquary” was written as two collections, presented here as two volumes in a single work. There is a short author’s preface before the first story in each volume. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)

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Preface to Vol. 1 and Canon Alberic (Peter Yearsley)
Lost Hearts (Peter Yearsley)
The Mezzotint (Peter Yearsley)
The Ash-Tree (Peter Yearsley)
Number 13 (Peter Yearsley)
Count Magnus (Peter Yearsley)
Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad (Peter Yearsley)
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (Peter Yearsley)
Preface to Vol. 2 and A School Story (Peter Yearsley)
The Rose Garden (Peter Yearsley)
The Tractate Middoth (Peter Yearsley)
Casting the Runes (Peter Yearsley)
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral (Peter Yearsley)
Martin’s Close (Peter Yearsley)
Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance – Part One (Peter Yearsley)
Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance – Part Two (Peter Yearsley)
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